How To Install apulse on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apulse on Kali Linux.

What is apulse

apulse is:

The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the PulseAudio API. It consists of a loader script and a number of shared libraries with the same names as from original PulseAudio, so applications could dynamically load them and think they are talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound mixing daemon is used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA’s dmix, dsnoop, and plug plugins to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the same time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin allow multiple applications to capture from a single microphone; and plug plugin transparently converts audio between various sample formats, sample rates and channel numbers.

There are three methods to install apulse on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install apulse Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install apulse using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apulse

Install apulse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install apulse using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install apulse

Install apulse Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install apulse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apulse

How To Uninstall apulse on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the apulse package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apulse

Uninstall apulse And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apulse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apulse

Remove apulse Configurations and Data

To remove apulse configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apulse

Remove apulse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove apulse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apulse

Dependencies

apulse have the following dependencies:

• libasound2
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0

References

• apulse website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apulse package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.